The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled the results of a sweeping review...

Two mathematicians, a bevy of molecular biologists and a rocket scientist are among the...

The findings reported last week in Science that a mouse retrovirus dubbed XMRV poses...

BERLIN—Mice carrying human genes are ethically acceptable, but German scientists who want to make...

Glowing bacteria encode messages that only the intended receiver can decipher

The National Science Foundation (NSF) hopes that a new set of family-friendly policies will...

Following a looting spree during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the famous...

U.S. plant scientists have taken the first steps toward a 10-year plan to help...

Antarctic sea floor increasingly scoured by icebergs

A circadian clock controls isoprene emissions by trees and could lead to better ozone modeling

A year ago, human rights activists thought they had squashed a proposed United Nations...

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A Senate spending panel has praised a new translational center at the National Institutes...

Worsening space weather might rule out a crewed Mars mission for decades

Researchers teach "alien languages" to discover the origins of our own

Just 2 months after Zahi Hawass was removed as chief of Egypt's antiquities, his...

A political feud over a "shadow" climate science service is heating up again. Following...

A virologist who worked on biodefense vaccines and was active in South Carolina politics...

A doctoral student at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, who has been detained...

The new The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World that had glaciologists in a...

Others doubt the mind-boggling claim, which would overturn Einstein's theory of special relativity

Hypothesized device would shield an object from a magnetic field without distorting the field

In African savannas, the two hoofed animals may not be natural competitors

To compensate for inbreeding, female beetles mate with many partners